Think liturgical music for your choir. Arrangements of the psalms abound. Sing an appropriate psalm in addition to the appointed psalmody for the day. Opportunities for attendant music are the gathering, offering, and distribution of communion.
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Linda Kempke is a retired Associate in Ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and currently Region 1 President of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. She is the cantor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Brooklyn, OH. Linda holds degrees from the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music, Berea, OH and Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, OH.
Recent Posts
Working with Small Choirs: Part 2 -- Other Resources
Posted on Jun 3, 2013 7:07:13 AM by Linda Kempke in Choral Techniques and Repertoire, in review-prelude
Choirs with Limited Resources: Part 1 – The Hymnal as a Resource
Posted on May 27, 2013 11:38:06 AM by Linda Kempke in Choral Techniques and Repertoire, in review-prelude
So you have a choir of 12 or 8 or 5 or all women and one male. The list of variations could go on. What are you, as director, to do about it? Carl Schalk has said “The smaller parish can be an exhilarating place for worship and church music, but it requires creativity and resourcefulness.” (Cross Accent, Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, “Getting More for Less”, November 2012). Now read the same phrase substituting “smaller choir” for “smaller parish.”
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